Louise, aged 68, is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and lives in a nursing home. Her daily life is riddled with sadness because her son Daniel is no longer visiting her, discouraged by his mother’s memory lapses. The arrival of a new patient in the home (Leo, 82), who is also suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, will upset Louise’s life ... but also that of Daniel!

A Simple Fracture is a story about memory. Professor Philip Stone is an eminent neuroscientist - now in his seventies - who whilst being interviewed for a high brow television program falls down a rabbit hole of his own memory and sees for the first time a traumatic and long suppressed event from his childhood in its entirety. As an expert on the workings of the mind Professor Stone is shaken to his core by this revelation and for a moment a lifetimes work begins to crumble beneath him. But as the camera rolls and his wisdom is recorded, it is big sister Eleanor who once again steers him into the clear waters of his conscience.